Through the port comes the moon-shine astray!It tips the guard's cutlass and silvers this nook;...But 'twill die in the dawning of Billy's last day.A jewel-block they'll make of me to-morrow,Pendant pearl from the yard-arm-endLike the ear-drop I gave to Bristol Molly--O, 'tis me, not the sentence they'll suspend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a... fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water,--so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,... for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To suppose that "I know" is a descriptive phrase, is only one example of the descriptive fallacy, so common in philosophy. Even if... some language is now purely descriptive, language was not in origin so, and much of it is still not so. utterance of obvious ritual phrases, in the appropriate circumstances, is not describing the action we are doing, but doing it ("I do"): in other cases it functions, like tone and expression, or again like punctuation and mood, as an intimation that we are employing language in a special way ("I warn," "I ask," "I define"). Such phrases cannot, strictly, be lies, though they can "imply" lies, as "I promise" implies that I fully intend, which may be true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »